Mark Midler
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| Full name | Mark Petrovich Midler | ||||||||||||
| Born | (1931年09月24日)24 September 1931 Moscow, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||
| Died | 31 May 2012(2012年05月31日) (aged 80)[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||
| Club | Burevestnik Moskva | ||||||||||||
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Mark Petrovich Midler (Russian: Марк Петрович Мидлер; 24 September 1931 – 31 May 2012) was a Soviet Russian foil fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games, at which he won two gold medals.[3]
Early and personal life
[edit ]Midler was born in Moscow, in the Soviet Union, and was Jewish.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Fencing career
[edit ]Midler was a member of the USSR National Fencing Team between 1951 and 1967.[8] [3] He trained at Burevestnik in Moscow.[9] [3]
Midler won the Soviet individual foil title six times (1954–57, 1963, and 1965) and the Soviet Cup in 1961.[3]
World Championships
[edit ]Midler won four consecutive World Championships in Foil, in 1959 to 1962.[3] He also won a silver medal in 1957 and bronze medals in 1959 and 1961.[10] [3] Along with his Soviet teammates, he won the World Team Championships in Foil five times: in 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, and 1966.[3] They also won a silver medal in 1967.[3]
Olympics
[edit ]Midler was captain of the Foil team for the 1960 Olympic Games and the 1964 Olympic Games.[3] They won the gold medal in Team Foil at both Olympics.[3]
Coaching career
[edit ]Midler coached fencing for the Olympic teams of the Soviet Union and Russia.[3] From 1971 until 2000, Midler was the coach of the Soviet and later Russian national foil team.[3] He was also the head coach of the Soviet 1980 Olympic foil team, Unified Team 1992 Olympic foil team, and Russian 1996 and 2000 Olympic foil teams.[3]
Awards
[edit ]Midler was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.[11] In 1960 he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.[9]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ "NOS Sport – Schermlegende Midler overleden". Nos.nl. June 2012. Retrieved 2012年06月01日.
- ^ "Olympics Statistics: Mark Midler". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 2012年02月13日. Retrieved 2010年09月25日.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Mark Midler Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020年04月17日. Retrieved 2010年09月25日.
- ^ Day by Day in Jewish Sports History – Bob Wechsler
- ^ Great Jews in Sports – Robert Slater
- ^ Jewish Affairs
- ^ Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports – Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver
- ^ Profile at the Russian Fencing Federation
- ^ a b Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 564.
- ^ "Sports 123: Fencing: World Championships: Men: Foil". Archived from the original on 2007年09月29日. Retrieved 2007年02月22日.
- ^ Siegman, Joseph (2000). Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Hall of Fame – Joseph Siegman. Brassey's. ISBN 9781574882841 . Retrieved 2012年06月01日.
External links
[edit ]- 1931 births
- 2012 deaths
- Soviet male foil fencers
- Russian male foil fencers
- Jewish foil fencers
- Jewish Russian sportspeople
- Olympic fencers for the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Fencers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Burevestnik (sports society) sportspeople
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Russian fencing coaches
- 20th-century Russian sportsmen